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To: Aliska

Thank you for the Ghost Ship of New Haven. Have lived near New Haven all my life and had never heard that story.


24 posted on 07/18/2015 6:39:06 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: KosmicKitty
I'm glad you liked it. There is a rather nice painting in the New Haven Historical Society commemorating the apparition; some months back I saw a color scan of part of it. It's supposed to be in landscape mode. I have a copy of the painting in black & white in the photos portion of one of my Snow books. Hoping to obtain a colored print to frame, I emailed the society in the hopes of getting a copy; they replied, and I can't remember why I didn't pursue it further.

There was no known passenger list but the people at the time, of course, would have known which relatives were aboard. And we do know the Captain's name, Lamberton (?)

Anyway it's a little more special to me because a direct ancestor grandfather to about the 8th generation was believed to have been aboard. His name was John Taylor.

It looks like a distant cousin of mine has put up this page and told the story. It lends strength to my belief that my ancestor was on the ghost ship.

There is a colored portion of the commemorative painting on the page.

A Halloween Ghost Story - The Phantom Ship of New Haven, CT (taylorbakercousins)


26 posted on 07/18/2015 9:54:35 AM PDT by Aliska
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